It make me sad but you are 100% correct. This will no longer be a WM exclusive and there will be even more people who see the price tag and scoff. At least Target will have a bunch on sale by late next year...and they have good sales too

The Hasbro site has just updated the ultra line with a new Mellenium Falcon with opening canopy, retractable landing gear and opening entry hatch, among other things, and a new AT-AT with articulated knee joints access panel and mini snowspeeder! These are definitely not (total) action fleet rehashes.

I've kind of stayed away from this line so far, just because at $20 a pop I just can't afford them. Plus, I've been trying to scale back on things this year, at least as best I can. That being said, I really like the Falcon and AT-AT with mini snowspeeder that are being shown now. If I can talk the wife into letting those be displayed in the basement, I might try to pick those up. I really like the addition of the snowspeeder with the AT-AT, almost making it a little "scene". I can almost guarantee I'll get the Falcon, as long as I can find it. I don't know about anyone else, but these are really being hidden at our local WM...being stuck way back in a back toy aisle alongside totally unrelated merchandise. TRU always has a few in the SW section, and I don't I've seen the "Ultra" ones at our Targets yet.

I just found the Ultra Falcon, Galactica, and X-1. I passed on the Tie fighter, I already have a half dozen from Action Fleet but piced up the other two. The Falcons detail is nice but the Galactica is kinda iffy, and purpleish. I was expecting something more metalic looking.

I was going to pick up the Galactica this moring, but had heard that you can't remove these from the plastic case. Is this true?

Uh... I'd be very interested in knowing that as well, since I haven't even opened any of mine yet. I'd be pretty surprised if they're not removable though.

Still haven't seen the dang Falcon or AT-AT, though I did finally nab the Vader's TIE last week at a Target. Any word on what's on tap after that?

The Hasbro reps down at Comic Con last month said that this line was struggling (unlike the smaller 2-3" line), and that it's future was currently up in the air. So this line may fizzle out before it hardly even got started, possibly. If they only make it 6 ships into the OT and that's all, I may very well just return all of mine and ditch the line entirely since it'd be so incomplete looking. I guess we'll find out soon enough...

LOL, I can answer that for you, but only because I saw an empty package tonight for the Ultra Titaniums. Somebody just carved it right out and left the package behind I've no idea whether you're supposed to remove it or not though.

I wound up picking up the Galactica and found that the cover does easily pop off and the base screws off. Looks like it's supposed to do that, although, the base is hideous and I haven't been able to find an alternate way to mount it.

Maybe due to the cancellation, but I noticed our local Target had all of the Titanium Ultra ships on clearance. I happened to see the Falcon for the first time, and my wife said to pick it up since it was clearanced for $9-something. I don't have a desire to get any more, especially with the line ending, but I kind of like having a Falcon in a little display case like that.